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deterrence

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  • n  a negative motivational influence
  • n  a communication that makes you afraid to try something
  • n  the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety

  • Walls aside, what Israel sorely misses is the capacity to strike fear into its neighbors, deterrence.
  • They want to feel confident that deterrence works the other way and that they could retaliate effectively against an American attack on them.
  • They decided to revise the section of the first draft that labeled deterrence "marginally justifiable.
News & Articles

  • CLAAD Petitions FDA To Reject Opioid Medications Without Safety Features
    WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Lawful Access and Abuse Deterrence (CLAAD) joined in signing a Citizen Petition filed today urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to fully implement the Obama administration's policy supporting a market transition to safer opioid medications. The petition asks that the FDA reject applications for new opioid medications ...
    June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
  • SILive.com 'Comment of the Day'
    Said grtfulguy The NYPD cant be everywhere and the camera's are also helpful in finding criminals after the crimes as well as a deterrence.
    June 8, 2013 - Staten Island Advance
Quotes

  • Robert Gates in Denver Post
    I guess I would say that I was engaged in my own form of strategic deterrence,said Gates, who for the past two years has talked only of his desire to return home to Washington state. "It was my hope that if I made enough noise about how...
  • Avi Dichter in International Herald Tribune
    The question is not whether to create deterrence, but when,Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, a member of Olmert's ruling Kadima party, told Israel Radio.
  • Edward Leigh in WalesOnline
    The Ministry of Defence's ability to maintain continuous-at-sea nuclear deterrence from 2024 is open to doubt,committee chairman Edward Leigh said.

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